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Thoughtful if glancing remarks on word usage, fads, and other matters of pressing concern to public-radio listeners. Gathering...
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In the tradition of Leslie Charteris's Saint and Jack Vance's Magnus Ridolph, etc., two long interconnected stories featuring...
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Freer (The Forlorn, 1999) and Flint (1632, 2000) join to describe what happens when a small alien probe...
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An ebullient first-person account of an alternative healing experience that includes step-by-step do-it-yourself instructions. In 1992, Bays, then...
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A baseball lover chronicles the history of the sport by winding his way from one stadium to another....
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Run-for-cover writing from scary places, by Junger (A Perfect Storm, 1997), a man with an appetite for the...
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A delightful sequel to the 1963 bestseller The Pooh Perplex that, like its predecessor, both skewers and synopsizes...
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Parsons (Courtship Gift, 2000, etc.) presents a grim thriller that asks whether redemption might not be worse than...
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Mary Poppins meets the Addams Family in a nonstop farce that spins readers and characters through cyberspace, from...
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Bruchac (The Journal of Jesse Smoke, p. 655, etc.) sets this short nail-biter, based on a Mohawk legend—about...
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A bitter strike creates a family split possibly beyond even baseball's power to mend, in this engaging tale...
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Dead but not quite gone, specters in these seven stories rise up to harry the living, meet lovers,...
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Two high-school freshmen head off both a space war and an invasion of Earth in this freewheeling debut....
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A characteristic blend of social and sexual satire from Weldon (Rhode Island Blues, 2000, etc.). Grace Salt, 55,...
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Mild-mannered American economist who loves fine dining gets kidnapped by terrorists seeking revenge for the evils of the...
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The first day of preschool can give even an elephant a case of the shim-shams, as Goodman's little...
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Fruity artwork in deep color helps put some luster into this agenda-driven story. Horace P. Tuttle fancies himself...
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Kindheartedness lies at the core of this story, even if the main character wishes to banish all mice—via...
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Theo's problems are both unusual and ordinary, as the only hearing child in a family otherwise deaf, and...
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Otters star in the 14th Redwall adventure (The Legend of Luke, 2000, etc.), holding the line against evil...
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